Published March 17, 2017
A prosecutor says two backpackers were subjected to a terrifying ordeal on a remote Australian beach, where a man sexually assaulted one of the women before beating her friend in the head with a hammer and repeatedly ramming her with his four-wheel drive as she tried to flee for help.
Grim details of the women's attack emerged Thursday in South Australia's Supreme Court on the opening day of the trial of a 60-year-old man charged in the 2016 assault. The man has pleaded not guilty to a series of charges, including attempted murder, kidnapping and assault.
The man's name has been suppressed by a court order. The women are from Germany and Brazil.
Prosecutor James Pearce told the court the man met the women on a classified advertising website.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/trial-begins-of-man-accused-in-australian-backpacker-attacks